Shaun’s Patch

Southland Times, Issue 21656, 18 March 1932, Page 8

Shaun’s Patch

A little nonsense now and then I Is relished by the wisest men. IB —Hudibras. | ii ilium Fred Jones was very serious Economy was in his bones, And so the earnest, saving cuss „ Would always sign himself “Frd Jns. * • » * It is the man who has no money who can tell people how to save it. » * * ♦ LAW AND ORDER. Law: Thou shalt not ; . . Order: I want ... * * * * Don’t tell a fisherman there’s plenty of fish left in the sea; he may be one of the men who left them. • ♦ * * EDUCATIONAL AIDS. Give a sentence containing the word “scintillate”: “She never gets scintillate.” » * » * INCREDULITIES. There was once a reformer who said that the real trouble was people took things too seriously. * # One of the difficulties of this lifejs the most charitable haven’t any money or any to spare. < • » * Thinking of the tariff, you realize that this day New Zealand expects the Government to do its duty in. If a man asks a girl to marry him and live on thirty shillings a week, that’s just about as long as she will. You’ll find the Scot will car canny. # * * * FAMOUS ENCUMBRANCES. Mortgages. Wives. Husbands. Children. Parents. Whiskers. WHAT A RELIEF! Yesterday I discovered these headings in a paper: RUGBY FOOTBALL. FAVOURED BY WELLINGTON. Apprehensions of the possibility of the national game departing from the Dominion to escape the depression have disappeared, and now that Wellington has spoken I can put my tiddlewinks livery back among the camphor. * * A correspondent has sent this announcement from the Rotorua Morning Post: TO MY FRIENDS AND OTHERS. A Stork delivered to our house Twin Girls on the 2nd March, 1932. Mother O.K. Father dumfounded. E. PRATT.